[_] HP Labs Bristol Science Lecture
Tim Beadle
tim.beadle at gmail.com
Fri Sep 1 10:36:49 BST 2006
On 31/08/06, Oliver Humpage <oliver at watershed.co.uk> wrote:
> Not the philosophy I've been reading... not even Wittgenstein. But then I'm
> not particularly well-read :)
Have you read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle maintenance? Pirsig's
alter ego, Phaedrus, was a science prodigy (undergarduate at 15 years
old), but he finds that the nature of scientific enquiry (as alluded
to by Alan earlier in this thread) is to actually lead you further
from, not closer to "the truth". Hence he goes a bit mad, has electric
shock therapy, and winds up doing philosophy instead.
And I'm only about half way through the book...
Tim
> Not the philosophy I've been reading... not even Wittgenstein. But then I'm
> not particularly well-read :)
Have you read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle maintenance? Pirsig's
alter ego, Phaedrus, was a science prodigy (undergarduate at 15 years
old), but he finds that the nature of scientific enquiry (as alluded
to by Alan earlier in this thread) is to actually lead you further
from, not closer to "the truth". Hence he goes a bit mad, has electric
shock therapy, and winds up doing philosophy instead.
And I'm only about half way through the book...
Tim